Been working on this for a bit now, compiling all the important dates I could find from forum announcements, the ManaLabs timeline (unfortunately doesn't have exact dates), a timeline created by Dakota himself back in 2016, and my personal knowledge of the server. So, here is an updated, comprehensive timeline of some of the most historic events in ManaCube's history. If I screwed anything up here (which is very likely) or missed something important, feel free to let me know! Video coming soon :p
September 13, 2013
MineVast was created (started as a creative server)
October 30th, 2013
Skype Staff Chat was created
November 3rd, 2013
MineVast 2.0 Released
(Server turned into a network. Lobbies created. KitPvP released)
November 8th, 2013
MineVast Hunger Games Released (removed by January, and plans to add it back along with Towny in February were cancelled)
November 9th, 2013
MineVast Factions released
December 2013
MineVast Skyblock released
January 24th-26th, 2014
20,000 unique users
Record player count of 120
1000 registered forum users
March 2014
Server only had creative, factions, kitpvp, and skyblock
May 13th, 2014
KitPvP 3.0 released
May 2nd, 2014
Factions 2.0 released
July 13th, 2014
New Forums Released
July 17th, 2014
SkyWars 2.0 released
August 3rd, 2014
Skyblock 2.0 released
August 13th, 2014
Survival Games finally re-released
September 13th, 2014
1st anniversary of the server
September 14th, 2014
Parkour Released
October 21st, 2014
KitPvP 4.0, "The New KitPvP"
November 8th, 2014
Website Stats and Leaderboards
Creative became 1.8
April 15th, 2015
MineVast suffers large-scale DDoS attacks, is able to beat them out within a few days
March 15th, 2015
KitPvP 5.0 released
April 22nd, 2015
Creative 3.0 released
April 25th, 2015
The new Website/store/forums
Mid-2015
Factions and prison (which was apparently added at some point) both removed from the server, only to make a return years later in the server's life.
June 1st, 2015
Skyblock 3.0 released. Parkour starts to gain a lot of popularity
June 3rd, 2015
Olympus project announced
August 6th, 2015
SkyWars 3.0 released (beta on the 31st)
September 12th, 2015
2nd anniversary of the server
September 20th, 2015
Parkour 1 year anniversery. New spawn released
October 15th, 2015
MineVast gets a new logo/icon
December 2nd, 2015
Forums hacked (hacker got Dacon's password, used it to get into the admin panel, deleted the forum theme, replaced it with his own, and staff had to rollback the forum by 3 days)
January 22nd, 2016
KitPvP 6.0 released
February 11th, 2016
Friends re-released. Teamspeak Update
February 14th, 2016
MineVast hits 500,000 total players
February 28th, 2016
EULA compliance pushed onto the server, donators before March 31st keep perks forever, donators after March 31st only get the new donator perks. However, this wasn't enforced very heavily from what I can tell, causing problems just 2 months later...
March 14th, 2016
Droppers added to Parkour
April 30th, 2016
EULA compliance part 2. Because of slow enforcement on MineVast's end, the server was blacklisted by Mojang from Minecraft version 1.9.3 and later. The same plans for ranks did have to be implemented, but they also had to remove Gems from the store and revamp crate keys.
July 2nd, 2016
Barebones released
August 1st, 2016
Islands released
August 16th, 2016
KitPvP 7.0 released
September 14th, 2016
3rd anniversary of the server
December 18th, 2016 (the Adventure Update)
Server rebrands to ManaCube
Survival revamp
Skyblock revamp
New hub added
New website/store design
Server lore created
December 20th, 2016
Graser10 and Kiingtong briefly join the server as media owners
February 28th, 2017
Skywars 4.0 released
March 9th, 2017
Parkour Practice released
March 23rd, 2017
Parkour Map Maker released
June 17th, 2017
Skyblock 5.0 released
July 8th, 2017
KitPvP 8.0 released
August 6th, 2017
Another new hub added
September 14th, 2017
4th anniversary of the server, poll decided that Prison would become a new gamemode on the server
November 11th, 2017
Parkour 2.0 released after over 3 years without a reset. Ranks, maps, score, gems, inventories, ender chests, vaults, stats, plots all gone. However, all players got a double chest reset vault to store their most precious items beyond the reset, and titles, ranks, and cubits survived the transfer. The 2.0 reset also came with a brand new spawn and the first champion map on the server, being the Haunted Manor.
November 21st, 2017
QA team added
December 2nd, 2017
KitPvP 9.0 released
December 15th, 2017
Skyblock 6.0 released
January 27th, 2018
Manacade added, basic inventory games that you can play in the hubs
April 7th, 2018
Olympus released
September 13th, 2018
5th anniversary of the server, new hub with tons of detail, secrets, easter eggs, and even a ManaCube hub bingo encouraging you to scour the map for 36 landmarks.
October 29th, 2018
Skyblock 7.0 released
January 14th, 2019
Community droppers added to Parkour
March 9th, 2019
Olympus Season 2 released
July 13th, 2019
Skyblock splits into Oasis and Aztec
August 3rd, 2019
Olympus splits into Aether and Atlas
August 23rd, 2019
Factions returns to ManaCube after over 4 years of downtime
September 12th, 2019
6th anniversary of the server
October 18th, 2019
Dream creates a video on ManaCube discussing the longest possible jump in Minecraft. Though Dream is already big at the time, getting several million views per video, this video goes viral, currently standing at over 13 million views, much more than his other videos from around that time. Because of the popularity of the video, tens of thousands of new players flock to the server, causing chaos network-wide for about a month, and chaos centralized to Parkour for about a year until it calmed down enough to not be considered a major issue, although the fans have certainly not disappeared entirely.
February 1st, 2020
KitPvP Season X released
September 13th, 2020
7th anniversary of the server
November 11th, 2020
Parkour Adventure Update (not to be confused with the general Adventure Update of 2016) released, with a new spawn, 2 new adventure maps, and daily challenges.
MineVast was created (started as a creative server)
October 30th, 2013
Skype Staff Chat was created
November 3rd, 2013
MineVast 2.0 Released
(Server turned into a network. Lobbies created. KitPvP released)
November 8th, 2013
MineVast Hunger Games Released (removed by January, and plans to add it back along with Towny in February were cancelled)
November 9th, 2013
MineVast Factions released
December 2013
MineVast Skyblock released
January 24th-26th, 2014
20,000 unique users
Record player count of 120
1000 registered forum users
March 2014
Server only had creative, factions, kitpvp, and skyblock
May 13th, 2014
KitPvP 3.0 released
May 2nd, 2014
Factions 2.0 released
July 13th, 2014
New Forums Released
July 17th, 2014
SkyWars 2.0 released
August 3rd, 2014
Skyblock 2.0 released
August 13th, 2014
Survival Games finally re-released
September 13th, 2014
1st anniversary of the server
September 14th, 2014
Parkour Released
October 21st, 2014
KitPvP 4.0, "The New KitPvP"
November 8th, 2014
Website Stats and Leaderboards
Creative became 1.8
April 15th, 2015
MineVast suffers large-scale DDoS attacks, is able to beat them out within a few days
March 15th, 2015
KitPvP 5.0 released
April 22nd, 2015
Creative 3.0 released
April 25th, 2015
The new Website/store/forums
Mid-2015
Factions and prison (which was apparently added at some point) both removed from the server, only to make a return years later in the server's life.
June 1st, 2015
Skyblock 3.0 released. Parkour starts to gain a lot of popularity
June 3rd, 2015
Olympus project announced
August 6th, 2015
SkyWars 3.0 released (beta on the 31st)
September 12th, 2015
2nd anniversary of the server
September 20th, 2015
Parkour 1 year anniversery. New spawn released
October 15th, 2015
MineVast gets a new logo/icon
December 2nd, 2015
Forums hacked (hacker got Dacon's password, used it to get into the admin panel, deleted the forum theme, replaced it with his own, and staff had to rollback the forum by 3 days)
January 22nd, 2016
KitPvP 6.0 released
February 11th, 2016
Friends re-released. Teamspeak Update
February 14th, 2016
MineVast hits 500,000 total players
February 28th, 2016
EULA compliance pushed onto the server, donators before March 31st keep perks forever, donators after March 31st only get the new donator perks. However, this wasn't enforced very heavily from what I can tell, causing problems just 2 months later...
March 14th, 2016
Droppers added to Parkour
April 30th, 2016
EULA compliance part 2. Because of slow enforcement on MineVast's end, the server was blacklisted by Mojang from Minecraft version 1.9.3 and later. The same plans for ranks did have to be implemented, but they also had to remove Gems from the store and revamp crate keys.
July 2nd, 2016
Barebones released
August 1st, 2016
Islands released
August 16th, 2016
KitPvP 7.0 released
September 14th, 2016
3rd anniversary of the server
December 18th, 2016 (the Adventure Update)
Server rebrands to ManaCube
Survival revamp
Skyblock revamp
New hub added
New website/store design
Server lore created
December 20th, 2016
Graser10 and Kiingtong briefly join the server as media owners
February 28th, 2017
Skywars 4.0 released
March 9th, 2017
Parkour Practice released
March 23rd, 2017
Parkour Map Maker released
June 17th, 2017
Skyblock 5.0 released
July 8th, 2017
KitPvP 8.0 released
August 6th, 2017
Another new hub added
September 14th, 2017
4th anniversary of the server, poll decided that Prison would become a new gamemode on the server
November 11th, 2017
Parkour 2.0 released after over 3 years without a reset. Ranks, maps, score, gems, inventories, ender chests, vaults, stats, plots all gone. However, all players got a double chest reset vault to store their most precious items beyond the reset, and titles, ranks, and cubits survived the transfer. The 2.0 reset also came with a brand new spawn and the first champion map on the server, being the Haunted Manor.
November 21st, 2017
QA team added
December 2nd, 2017
KitPvP 9.0 released
December 15th, 2017
Skyblock 6.0 released
January 27th, 2018
Manacade added, basic inventory games that you can play in the hubs
April 7th, 2018
Olympus released
September 13th, 2018
5th anniversary of the server, new hub with tons of detail, secrets, easter eggs, and even a ManaCube hub bingo encouraging you to scour the map for 36 landmarks.
October 29th, 2018
Skyblock 7.0 released
January 14th, 2019
Community droppers added to Parkour
March 9th, 2019
Olympus Season 2 released
July 13th, 2019
Skyblock splits into Oasis and Aztec
August 3rd, 2019
Olympus splits into Aether and Atlas
August 23rd, 2019
Factions returns to ManaCube after over 4 years of downtime
September 12th, 2019
6th anniversary of the server
October 18th, 2019
Dream creates a video on ManaCube discussing the longest possible jump in Minecraft. Though Dream is already big at the time, getting several million views per video, this video goes viral, currently standing at over 13 million views, much more than his other videos from around that time. Because of the popularity of the video, tens of thousands of new players flock to the server, causing chaos network-wide for about a month, and chaos centralized to Parkour for about a year until it calmed down enough to not be considered a major issue, although the fans have certainly not disappeared entirely.
February 1st, 2020
KitPvP Season X released
September 13th, 2020
7th anniversary of the server
November 11th, 2020
Parkour Adventure Update (not to be confused with the general Adventure Update of 2016) released, with a new spawn, 2 new adventure maps, and daily challenges.
